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Utah Division of Corporations officials said in a statement that neither jailed leader Warren S. Jeffs nor challenger William E. Jessop has presented "clear evidence" of a right to head the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' legal entity.

The two men have until Aug. 3 to either both sign a document agreeing on a leader or get a court order determining who is in authority, division officials stated.

 

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Canadian police say a man will appear in court in Moncton, N.B., today to face a first-degree murder charge in the death of former cult leader Roch Theriault.

Theriault, 63, was killed in an altercation with another inmate inside the correctional centre in Dorchester on Feb. 26.

 

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"God has cursed the earth. . . This is the starting point for all economic analysis. The earth no longer gives up her fruits automatically. Man must sweat to eat." So writes Gary North, "the leading proponent of 'Christian economics,'" which connects his version of biblical principles with the free market.

North's radical "Reconstructionism," invented by R. J. Rushdoony, has family resemblances to and influence on some wings of the libertarianism favored by some conservative churches.

 

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Hundreds of Muslims in Gujranwala on Saturday attacked homes of Christians, a school and a Presbyterian church building after learning that police had released two Christians accused of "blasphemy" – amid reports of another alleged desecration of the Quran.

The riots compelled a large number of Christian families to flee, as they feared the kind of large-scale violence that occurred in Gojra on Aug. 1, 2009, when at least seven Christians were burned alive by Muslim mobs after the spread of a rumor of blasphemy.

 

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